Festival Announcements

Less than four months to go and BLOODSTOCK HQ is a hive of activity!  With the ‘Metal 2 The Masses’ heats well under way and finals scheduled to kick off in May, the booking team are racking up more and more bands for the UK’s best metal weekender this August! …

at The O2, London PINK FLOYD’S  WISH YOU WERE HERE SYMPHONIC LIVE plus THERAPY? / MICHAEL MONROE  /HAKEN / THE LOUNGE KITTENS  /JACKAMAN / MESSENGER / JARED JAMES NICHOLS playing alongside headliners ALICE COOPER / RICK WAKEMAN plus THE DARKNESS / MARILLION / STEVE HACKETT BLACKBERRY SMOKE and many more …

Now in it’s sixth year and still going strong Rockin For The Children 2016 will, again, take place at The Maze, Nottingham over the May Day bank Holiday weekend, this year it falls so that the festival starts on the last day of April. With tickets for this popular annual …

EHT Promotions in association with PlanetMosh is proud to present THE UNLEASHED FESTIVAL 2016. The 4th installment of The Unleashed Festival will feature an array of talent from across Ireland and is sure to be a night to remember at the end of this Summer. First up, the venue will be obliterated by skull …

The clock’s ticking! There are just 133 days ‘til BLOODSTOCK, the best heavy metal party weekender of the year and BLOODSTOCK HQ has a bumper batch of Sophie Lancaster Stage bands to announce to cheer you into April. Plus, if you didn’t win festival tickets in the very popular BLOODSTOCK …

The clock’s ticking!  There are just 133 days ’til BLOODSTOCK, the best heavy metal party weekender of the year and  BLOODSTOCK HQ has a bumper batch of Sophie Lancaster Stage bands to announce to cheer you into April. Plus, if you didn’t win festival tickets in the very popular BLOODSTOCK …

The nineteenth annual Tuska Open Air Metal Festival has just added more muscle to the already heavy line up. Tuska 2016 will take place at Suvilahti, Helsinki Finland on July 1-3. See bottom of post for ticket information. Joining a stellar bill that already includes Avantasia, Ghost, Children Of Bodom, Testament, Anthrax …

BLOODSTOCK HQ is currently a hive of activity, with even more bands being confirmed for this August’s best heavy metal weekender. Joining the Ronnie James Dio stage are the recently reformed industrial outfit, MISERY LOVES COMPANY.  The band inform us, “The UK was always special to MISERY LOVES CO, our …

Norwegian metal legends ENSLAVED will mark a genre-defining 25 years together with a special ‘Spinning Wheel Ritual’ show at the 12th Damnation Festival. They will be joined by Californian powerviolence trio NAILS and Australian progressive death sextet NE OBLIVISCARIS at Leeds University Union on Saturday, November 5, 2016. The event …

Metal Female Voices Festival is shaping up to be quite the treat for its 13th installment! Headliners are confirmed to be Leaves Eyes; bringing their special Viking Ship show and Tarja.  Also confirmed are; MaYaN, Liv Kristine (Theatre of Tragedy Show), Kontrust, Battlelore, Mercy Isle, Crescent Lament, Whyzdom, Savn, Blackthorn, …

Divergent Concerts have announced the launch of a brand new one-day London metal festival for summer 2016.  The inaugural Rock On Green festival, which will be taking over the O2 Forum Kentish Town from 4pm onwards on Saturday 4th June, is set to present a packed bill of established names …

The worst kept secret on the Belfast music scene was confirmed this morning (Friday 4 March), when it was officially announced that Red Hot Chili Peppers will headline the Tennent’s Vital festival on Thursday 25 August. Special guests will be Fall Out Boy, with other support acts to be announced. …

A Thousand Horses Announce Debut Visit To The UK at This Year’s C2C Festival Live At The C2C Festival – The O2, March 13th Intimate London show – The Barfly, March 15th Latest single ‘First Time’ “A Thousand Horses are your new favourite Nashville band …their sound is a lively, swaggering …

With an already blistering line up confirmed for 2016, Bloodstock Festival have come up trumps with five more beasts added to the bill. Joining headliners Slayer, Mastodon and Twisted Sister will be a quintet of diverse metal, ranging from southern groove through metalcore via dementia and the blackened arts. Bolstering …

Wildfire Festival are gearing up for June’s 5th annual event with another announcement including who will fill the coveted Saturday headline spot. Lining up alongside Wildfire’s exclusive UK performance by Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens on Friday 24th June and New York heavy metal/speed metal legends Riot on Sunday 26th June are fast-rising hard rockers Inglorious. Causing an …

23rd to 24th July 2016 New Line Up Announcement Saturday Prog Stage Headliner FAMILY Main Stage The Answer Country Stage Whiskey Myers Hogjaw Road Dog Blues Stage Pat McManus   Following from a hugely successful inaugural year in 2015, Ramblin’ Man Fair returns in 2016. The festival is pleased to announce …

As the first rays of sunlight slip through the clouds after a seemingly endless Finnish winter, it’s a good time to start making plans for the summer. Finland’s boldest metal festival, Tuska will provide the heaviest dosage of metal madness of the summer, for the nineteenth time. FROM LAKE BODOM …

Prairie Fire Events Ltd is proud to announce its full line up for the official Farmageddon Open Air indoor sister festival SHREDMONTON Metal Festival and Conference taking place from Friday, May 6th to Sunday, May 8th. Featuring over 20 bands over the course of 3 days at The Starlite Room and The Brixx …

Already unveiling the first eighteen bands for their 2016 line up, Armstrong Metalfest is proud to announce it has teamed up with Broken Neck Radio for the People Choice Awards where one band will be added to the fest via online voting on www.BrokenNeckRadio.com. The contest will run from Feb 24th – 29th with the …

Allegiance Of Rock To Play Stockholm Rocks Festival The new Swedish supergroup ‘Allegiance Of Rock‘ is a collaboration consisting of Gus G (Ozzy, Firewind) – guitars, John Leven (Europe) – bass, Anders Johansson (Hammerfall, Yngwie Malmsteen) – drums and Mats Leven (Candlemass, Gus G) on vocals. This all star alliance will be united for the very first time …